Sentences with phrase «much been in court»

They welcomed their son into the world in 2010 and have pretty much been in court ever since.

Not exact matches

Find out how much of an attorney's time is spent battling it out in court and how much is devoted to mediating disputes.

B.C. is asking the courts to determine if it has jurisdiction to limit how much diluted bitumen can flow through pipelines in the province.

As for Cambridge, its team has roots in the American debt - settlement business that has drawn so much fire — and some of its earliest employees have been linked to companies accused of legal and regulatory violations in the U.S., according to court and corporate documents obtained by Canadian Business.

«This is a way that would respect the concerns of all people and it is much more efficient than what would happen otherwise which is British Columbia having to go to a court in British Columbia, then potential appeals, then potentially to the Supreme Court,» Singh told a news conference in Otcourt in British Columbia, then potential appeals, then potentially to the Supreme Court,» Singh told a news conference in OtCourt,» Singh told a news conference in Ottawa.

Thanks to a U.S. Supreme Court decision last summer, there is now no limit on how much card issuers can charge for late fees and other penalties, warns Michael Donovan, a partner at the law firm Chimicles, Jacobsen & Tikellis, in Haverford, Pa..

There may not be much activity in the courtroom itself, as initial bids to buy the paper will come in by filings, not in open court.

Though both countries have much to gain from a revitalized Russian Far East, it is not clear when — if ever — Russia's strategy of courting Beijing in the region to reduce its vulnerability to China will pay off.

On Friday, Apple filed a lawsuit in a San Diego federal court alleging that Qualcomm is charging too much for «standard essential» patents and is withholding nearly $ 1 billion in royalty cap «rebates» in retaliation for Apple's cooperation with anti-trust investigators in the U.S., South Korea and elsewhere.

It probably won't make Wynne any more popular in Harper's eyes, and will be one more reason for him to avoid meeting with her, but it could also be the first shot in a Supreme Court challenge of the legislation, which could conceivably be much faster - tracked than it would be if we had to wait for a Charter challenge the traditional way, which could conceivably help save lives, going back to the thrust of the Bedford decision in the first place.

It is a much easier task to affect the price of cash - settled instruments notionally backed by real underlying assets in rigged exchanges that court hyperactive turnover.

If you are buying a defaulted piece of paper trading for 15 cents on the dollar, chances are, you aren't going to get very much in bankruptcy court (lose a little), but who knows, maybe you score big in the restructuring and get some stock that rips.

Tim Reid, the founder of Phoenix Real Estate Investing, which works with distressed homeowners, says the number of foreclosure notices issued by Alberta courts in Calgary and Edmonton jumped by about 15 per cent from November to December, and is up as much as 40 per cent on the year.

Since Congress has, so far, not acted we are now on the precipice of a much more uncertain and chaotic situation in which Puerto Rico will attempt to selectively cancel debts and bondholders will seek to use the federal courts to block the Puerto Rican government from operating until it pays up.

It would appear that courting FCA approval, and thus helping to open up access to British and EU banking services, is all part of the firm's plans to court even more European business and make the process of dealing in cryptocurrency much more consumer - friendly.

I said it to hotair already, but I will expand it a bit for you: what is evidence for some is not accepted by everyone; just as in a court case, some jurors are convinced with very little evidence while some people can not be convinced of something no matter how much evidence there is... much of this comes from how you were raised and your own personal world view, for many people God does not fit into their world view so whatever evidence there is they close their eyes and say, «No, I don't believe that!»

The lawyers may have as much of an aversion as I've had to Donald Trump, but they are the ones who are sent into court to resist the mandates of Obamacare and to defend the Little Sisters of the Poor, the owners of Hobby Lobby, or the doctors and nurses who are invoking their rights under Hyde - Weldon Act not to be forced to participate in abortions.

He may not have that luxury much longer, as the Supreme Court has two upcoming cases that have the potential to be watershed moments in the gay marriage movement.

Even If the due - process provision calls on the court to protect rights recognized by tradition or widespread consensus, there is a problem with Roe: it involved neither Antiabortion laws were decades old, and although a few states had partly decriminalized abortion, Roe went much further and struck down laws in virtually every state.

Erhm there is much more evidence in most of the Tanakh that there were court historians employed by the Hebrew Kings too.

«Nobody,» said Education Minister Mariastella Gelmini, «much less a European court that is steeped in ideology, will be allowed to strip our identity away.»

As I go to court with poor immigrants, visit their children in schools and translate for them in job interviews, I am always stmck by how much social capital I have by simply being able to speak English well and to work as a professional in the community.

Martin is being criticized so much over everything, and really, he had the balls to make the correct ruling in court.

Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, a man on the opposite side of the political fence from Eisenhower, said much the same thing in a 1952 Supreme Court decision when he wrote, «We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.

Yes, there was the «sermon on the mount» and Jesus did teach in the synagogues and temple courts, but it also seems that much of Jesus» teaching, especially with the disciples, was «on the way».

Like a jury in a court case listening to witnesses, we should ask if politicians in their tweets are telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth (or as much as you can in 280 characters).

No doubt much of the expropriation of the land by the rich was legal, but the prophets saw that wealth could corrupt the judgments made in the law courts as well.

I think it would be much more interesting if believers had to defend the foundation of their beliefs, the existence of some god, in court...

Further, as the Cold War began, Christianity was unquestionably in control of American culture, so much so that religious organizations initially felt unthreatened by the new Supreme Court decisions.

It was not until years later that the Court majority described abortion as a woman's right, and then shifted in Casey v. Planned Parenthood (1992) from the much - criticized privacy ground to treating abortion as an individual liberty.

But even more pernicious was the influence of the harem — that breeding - ground of seditions and knavery, as well as the source of the monarch's personal demoralization, in every oriental court through history — which was firmly established by David and much enlarged by Solomon.

It turned out that the decision was not so much rooted in the Constitution as in the doctrine of precedent and» ironies begin to pile up at this point» in the Justices» perception that a contrary decision would undermine the Court's legitimacy by making it appear to be an institution influenced by politics.

The successful experience of the State of New York with such a law in which hundreds of cases have been adjusted satisfactorily even without recourse to the courts encourages us to believe that the difficulties are not nearly so great as some feared or wanted us to believe.42 It is true that one can easily put too much faith in sheer legislation which may be rendered futile if it is not supported in the community consciousness.

From the vestments (which are really nothing more than the Fourth Century CE court clothing of the Eastern Roman Empire), the canonized saints (which are essentially «Christian» demigods that replaced the pagan pantheon), the numerous feast days and holy days (which replaced pagan holidays), the statues and painted icons (which replaced pagan idols), and the episcopal structure (in which «third sons» of landed aristocrats who had no hope of inheriting their fathers» titles and lands could become «princes of the church» with as much worldly comfort as the «first sons» and almost as much wealth and power), the Anglican Church was practically indistinguishable from the Roman Church except that they used English in the Mass instead of Latin.

No matter how much I want the security of being right or in the «truth», if I really want to know I have to court doubt... invite it in.

Beings who will one day vanish from the earth in that ultimate subtraction of sensuality called death, we spend so much of our lives courting it: fomenting wars, watching with sickening horror movies in which maniacs slice and dice their victims, or hurrying to our own deaths in fast cars, cigarette smoking, or suicide.

This problem has proved to be too much for the courts; it is a serious one, and I would not want to see the religious right in a position to determine what is pornography.

There is much to be said, for instance, on behalf of Justice Kennedy's complaint that the decision deprives the people of California of the right to govern themselves by referenda, if the losers of a plebiscite can challenge the outcome and, with the collusion of friendly state officials unwilling to defend the people's will, win in court what they can not win at the ballot box.

That «secular» literature might have meant something to someone in Solomon's court has been argued from time to time about certain proverbs and wisdom texts, but not about texts where God is the main actor in the story — and certainly not in the manner of Bloom, where J suddenly sounds like a skeptical college professor who is much more «mature and sophisticated» than the believers in his midst and their God.

Evangelical pastors are much more concerned about the personal character of Trump and Clinton, as well as their Supreme Court picks, than the people in their pews.

In France the bishops were from the aristocracy and spent much of their time at court.

As much as the members of the Court claim non bias in their interpretation of the Consti tution, it simply can not be so.

It was a characteristic of the dynasties of Egypt and eastward that they tried to copy as much as possible the Abbasid court and organization in Baghdad.

When all is said and done, the Catholic Church has been forced to become much more aggressive in addressing this issue as a result of almost three decades of lawsuits and court orders.

Federal courts in Louisiana recently reached the conclusion that too much thinking about the difficult issues involved in evolution can be downright dangerous.

This group of people has their head up their ventral orifice and they are not, it seems to me, acting in good faith as regards how they are using the resources of the association as I very much doubt they could prevail in court and indeed might make the association liable for damages.

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«Much more important is the magnitude of the penalties imposed and the recognition by the Court that Coles» conduct in its dealings with suppliers was unconscionable and in contravention of the Australian Consumer Law.

(You'd be surprised how much dedicated pasta lovers — lawyers from the local courts and tourists alike — have in common.)

Built in 1850, it's not much bigger than a basketball court.